Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.
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Open Source MobaXterm AlternativesTop Terminal Emulators & SSH Clients like MobaXterm
The best open source alternative to MobaXterm is Ghostty. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to MobaXterm and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to MobaXterm are mRemoteNG, Tabby, Remmina and Termux.
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61 Ghostty alternatives
88 mRemoteNG alternativesManage remote connections efficiently with this open-source tool, featuring a tabbed interface supporting RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, and more protocols, without any ads.
mRemoteNG vs MobaXterm Comments
mRemoteNG is the only one on this list that is actually an alternative to MobaXterm in terms of functionality offered and core features.
Most of the functionality like MobaXterm. But Open Source.
- mRemoteNG is Free and Open Source
111 Tabby alternativesTabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Tabby vs MobaXterm Comments
gaobillsupport X server forwarding and keyword highlight
- Tabby is Free and Open Source
- Tabby is Lightweight
144 Remmina alternativesOpen source remote desktop client for Linux and BSD supporting RDP, VNC, SPICE, and more, aimed at sysadmins and travelers needing remote access with features like scrollable high-res desktops and organized connection management.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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Remmina vs MobaXterm Comments
Remmina have a session manager built in like mobaxterm. I think that only Remmina and mRemoteNG are truly replacement for mobaxterm
- Remmina is Free and Open Source
108 Termux alternativesExperience a powerful Unix terminal on Android without the need for rooting. Customize with packages via Apt, run command-line tools, SSH, and program in C, Python, and more. Enjoy a full Unix environment with bash, zsh, mouse support, and external display compatibility.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
- zsh
- GNU Bourne Again SHell
108 Windows Terminal alternativesWindows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...
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64 ConEmu alternativesWindows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.
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89 iTerm2 alternativesTerminal emulator for macOS enabling split panes, session restoration, advanced customization, search, SSH, automation features, tmux integration, Unicode, mouse support, notifications, inline images, broadcast input, and profile management.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- clink
- ConEmu
- Windows Command Prompt
- PowerShell
Cmder vs MobaXterm Comments
Top Negative CommentThey do entirely different things.
this is a simple shell emulator not a ssh client
Completely different functionality.
- Cmder is Free and Open Source
- Cmder is Lightweight
74 Konsole alternativesKonsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.
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102 KiTTY alternativesKiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
KiTTY vs MobaXterm Comments
Verry good SSH client. Integrates with WinSCP and pscp. Is the same as PuTTY but with extra's. The i.e. integrated launcher functionality. Session information in files and not in the registry. With dirmode on.
- KiTTY is Free and Open Source
- KiTTY is Lightweight
92 Terminator alternativesTerminator enables the user to run and manage multiple terminal emulators side-by-side in the same window. The main focus is arranging terminals in a grid. (Tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports.
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Terminator vs MobaXterm Comments
greenseekerThis is a terminal emulator. Moba is an ssh, rdp, telnet, xdmcp, vnc, etc client.
- Terminator is Free and Open Source
- Terminator is Lightweight
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The UI was not user-friendly, so MobaXterm contain à lot of more features. But MobaXterm is closed instead of mRemoteNG who is open source !